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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building
Washington, D. C,
Washington.—I believe it was
President Grover Cleveland who
made the very
President e p i g r a mmatic
on the Spot statement that “I
will take care of
my enemies; but please save me
from my friends.” The distin-
guished Democrat, Mr. Cleveland,
recognized one of the gravest dan-
gers that besets politicians and it
was in this connection that he made
the famous remark.
Lately, I have been thinking that
President Roosevelt is getting into
the spot—if, indeed, he is not al-
ready behind the eight-ball—where
he must have some protection from
his friends. He faces a condition
with which some observers fear he
may not be able to deal as success-
fully as has been his record.
The thing that has put Mr. Roose-
velt in a bad political spot is the.
outburst of Gov. George H. Earle of
Pennsylvania. Governor Earle, it
was, who burst forth recently with a
declaration that Mr. Roosevelt must
run for a third term. There are
“no men in the Democratic party
or any other party who reach knee-
high stature mentally or morally
to Franklin D. Roosevelt,” accord-
ing to Governor Earle’s appraisal
of the present Executive. Governor
Earle’s record in Pennsylvania is
that of an avid New Dealer. He
has followed the Roosevelt footsteps
in every specification and he has
maintained a constant gunfire of
chatter in support of the President
and his policies.
The activities of the Pennsylvania
governor have been so constant that
it led one observer to remark the
other day that Governor Earle ap-
parently wanted to be the first man
on the Roosevelt bandwagon for
1940. This, of course, had reference
to the priority given in political ap-
pointments after Mr. Roosevelt be-
came President to those Democrats
who had been supporters of Mr.
Roosevelt before the Chicago con-
vention that nominated him.
But instead of being flattered by
the pronouncement by the agile
Pennsylvania governor, I hear from
authentic sources that the President
was somewhat embarrassed. Cer-
tainly, a good many of. the New
Deal wheelhorses are embarrassed
because they can see how the Earle
declaration may be used to explode
various things politically as Mr.
Roosevelt goes through his current
term.
However that picture may devel-
op, the fact remains that no Presi-
dent ever has served a third term
in the United States. It is a prece-
dent established by George Wash-
ington and rigidly adhered to. Thus
to have “my friend George” de-
clare Mr. Roosevelt in the market
for a third term at this particular
time constitutes a bad political er-
ror. This is true because at the
moment there are more cries of
personal dictatorship being voiced
in this country than has happened
since congress gave the President
all of the extraordinary powers that
he holds.
* * *
There is, however, another side
to the story concerning Governor
, Earle. There are
Playing many who do not
Politics believe Governor
Earle is stupid,
politically. These persons hold the
conviction that the Pennsylvania
governor knows exactly what he is
doing in promoting Mr. Roosevelt
for a third term at this time. Their
reasoning is to the effect that it will
be impossible to renominate and re-
elect President Roosevelt for. a third
time, however much the President
may want the job again. This same
group contends that it would be fa-
tal to the liberal movement for Mr.
Roosevelt to take any steps in this
direction although the^re are a good-
ly number of people who are con-
vinced that he wants to break this
precedent as he has broken many
others.
In consequence, according to this
line of reasoning, Governor Earle
is playing his own game of politics.
Hoping that the lightning may strike
Governor Earle of Pennsylvania,
Governor Earle is promoting Frank-
lin Roosevelt for the job that Gov-
ernor Earle wants.
It is plain to see that, by urging
renomination and re-election of
President Roosevelt, Governor
Earle avoids the barbs and bludg-
eons that would be certain to come
his way if he were to admit that he
is a candidate thus far in advance
of 1940. Someone suggested that
the governor wanted Mr. Roosevelt
to be the objective of the brick-
bats until that happy day when the
President would step aside and la-
bel Governor Earle as the crown
prince of the New Deal.
* * *
However, in talking- about 1940,
there are basketsful of men who
would be most
Many Are wimng to dedicate
Willing their lives for four
or eight years in
the White House that they could
perform the great service of carry-
ing on the principles laid down by
Franklin Roosevelt. It will be a
great sacrifice, of course, for most
of th<;j/n to leave their present jobs
and run for the presidency. But a
good many of them already have let
it be known that they are prepared
to make this terrific sacrifice in
order to serve their country.
I do not attempt to enumerate all
of them. In any discussion of cur-
rent politics, however, one cannot
overlook such men as Henry Wal-
lace, now secretary of agriculture,
or Governor Murphy of Michigan
or Paul McNutt, now high com-
missioner for the United States to
the Philippine commonwealth. One
must not forget the ambitions of
Governor Davey of Ohio, or Senator
Barkley of Kentucky—all good New
Dealers and true. Then, I think,
one ought not omit reference to
Jesse Jones, chairman of the gigan-
tic Federal Reconstruction Finance
corporation, who would leave his
vast business interests, if neces-
sary, to serve in the White House.
Nor would I be fair to all of the
budding candidates if I omitted
reference to John L. Lewis who has
been claiming such yeoman service
in behalf of the working men
through the Committee for Industri-
al Organization which is violently
antagonistic to the American Fed-
eration of Labor. Mr. Lewis, of
course, will deny that he ever in-
tends to desert labor even for the
presidency, but there are a good
many people who think that Mr.
Lewis has some little thought con-
cealed in his heart—something of a
wish or a hope that he, too, might
find himself in the direct path of the
political lightning from the Demo-
cratic national convention in 1940.
I do not know now, nor do I
think anyone else knows, what the
relative strength is among these va-
rious gentlemen who are exhibiting
signs of a willingness to serve the
nation as the Democratic candi-
date.
* * *
Most of those who do me the
honor of reading these columns
undoubtedly have
tamous had varying opin-
Love Feast ions as to why
President Roose-
velt held the famous love feast on
the island in Chesapeake bay at the
end of June. From conversations
with Democratic friends in the
house of representatives, I am quite
convinced that not all of those who
were invited to the Jefferson Island
club for the meeting with the Presi-
dent were happy over the results.
Of course, as everyone knows, the
three-day session which the Presi-
dent had with Democrat senators
and representatives was intended to
placate all of the little ills and dis-
agreements that have arisen. These
congressmen with whom I have dis-
cussed the affair were not so sure
that the President accomplished his
purpose.
But I am quite convinced that
the real purpose Mr. Roosevelt had
in holding a love feast lies much
deeper. I believe that he foresees
the very difficulties that I mentioned
earlier, namely, the dangers of a
full list of candidates for the nom-
ination in 1940. Mr. Roosevelt is too
good a politician not to move early
as leader of his party to protect
against that sort of thing. By drop-
ping words in these free conferences
and by makipg suggestions concern-
ing the general political situation,
the President was enabled to ap-
proach the problem that he fore-
sees without disclosing too much of
his hand. Only time will tell how
he has succeeded.
In the meantime, one may prop-
erly call attention to the situation
that has developed at the capitol,
particularly in the senate. Hereto-
fore, I have mentioned several.,
times that strained relations existed
between the President and certain
leaders in congress. That condition
has not improved, to say the least.
Indeed, I think it is very much
worse.
Probably Vice President Garner
and Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
and Senator Harrison of Mississippi
each will deny that which I am
about to say but knowledge of it is
so general around the capitol in
Washington that a denial will not
change my conviction.
Unless I have been reading politi-
cal signs wrongly for 20 years, I
am convinced that the strained re-
lationship between the capitol and
the White House now embraces Vice
President Garner and Senators Rob-
inson and Harrison. The vice presi-
dent has done remarkable service
in behalf of the New Deal but I
never have believed that he was
whole-heartedly in favor of all
Roosevelt policies. Senator Robin-
son has served as majority leader
and as such has carried the hod for
the President on the floor of the
senate day after day, fighting for
legislation which the President
wanted and generally serving as
Mr. Roosevelt’s right hand at the
capitol. My own belief is that Sen-
ator Robinson would have changed
many of the administration policies
if he could have done so witho.it en-
dangering the President’s leader-
ship of the party. Much the same
can be written about Senator Har-
rison who has served as the chair-
man of the senate finance commit-
tee, a powerful unit in carrying out
New Deal policies.
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'Way Back When
By JEANNE
AN OIL DRILLER
pLARK GABLE was little differ-
' ent from any other small town
boy. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1900,
and later living in Hopedale, Ohio,
population 500, Clark Gable was a
regular American boy, fond of the
outdoors and all sports. Mother-
less from the time he was seven
months old, he was raised by his
grandparents until his father re-
married. He held a deep love and
respect for his stepmother.
Like any other normal American
boy, Clark Gable was not sure what
position he would like to hold in
life. He thought for awhile that he
might be an architect, and later
he studied medicine at night school.
Ambitious but poor, he had to work
from the time he was seventeen
years old, and his jobs were as va-
ried as his opportunities. He was
time-keeper in a rubber factory,
call boy in a theater, an oil driller,
a telephone linesman, a surveyor’s
assistant and a lumberjack. Clark
Gable might have been anything but
a motion picture actor.
He became a star by traveling
the hard road of theatrical stock
companies and motion picture ex-
tra, overcoming many disappoint-
ments, until he reached the pinna-
cle in “It Happened One Night,”
which won the Motion Picture
award for the best picture of 1934
'* * *
CARL SANDBURG NEVER
WOULD SETTLE DOWN
U OW many times have you heard
-I someone say, “I don’t know
what to do about that boy of mine;
it looks like he never will settle
down”? Carl Sandburg was like
that. A boy who skipped from job
to job, and gave his simple Swedish
immigrant parents many a worried
hour! He was born in 1878 in Gales-
burg, 111., of people who were un-
educated and kindly, simple and
poor. Forced by poverty to go to
work when he was thirteen, he be-
gan the seemingly endless series
ot' jobs that gave him such true
understanding of the common peo-
ple.
He drove a milk wagon in Gales-
burg and he blacked boots in a
barber shop. If you could have
looked into the future and said that
some day Carl Sandburg would be
a great poet, they would have
laughed you out of town! He be-
came a scene shifter in a cheap
theater, a truck handler in a brick
yard, and then a turner’s apprentice
in a pottery shop. Cheap manual
labor, nothing skilled about most of
it! He worked as a dish-washer in
Si#
mid-western hotels, a harvest hand
in the Kansas wheat fields, and a
carpenter’s helper.
Carl Sandburg was learning the
painter’s trade when the Spanish-
American war broke out, and he
enlisted. A comrade persuaded him
to go to Lombard college and he
worked his way through as a bell
ringer, gym janitor and college cor-
respondent for the Galesburg Daily
Mail. In college his literary ability
developed and he became editor of
the school publications. After grad-
uation he supported himself as ad-
vertising manager of a department
store and sales manager of a busi-
ness machines firm.
He entered politics, became a re-
porter, and in 1917, Carl Sandburg
joined the staff of the Chicago Daily
News, where his work has been out-
standing.
A rolling stone, a,.restless jack-of-
all-trades has been Carl Sandburg,
but from the time of his literary
awakening in college, he has writ-
ten steadily stories for children, a
biography of Lincoln, and hundreds
of poems about the mass of people.
So, if that boy of yours is rest-
less, if he skips from place to place,
be patient. Carl Sandburg gained
fame by knowing many people,
many jobs, many problems.
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OURRAY for dear
•*- -*■ old Johnnie Two-
Weeks! He’s recently
given the nod to these
three sweet young la-
borers and now they’re off reap-
ing the rewards. Yes, they’re va-
cationing — and how! But, of
course, Sew-Your-Own had them
dressed right up to the hilt.
Chic in Chiffon.
Miss M, picturesque blonde,
above, left, knows what glamour
is and how to have it. That’s why
she chose this softly feminine
frock with its swirling skirt and
delicately slim waist. You should
see her of an evening in the out-
door terrace. She’s a picture in
black gossamer chiffon trimmed
with white satin. And to think,
she made it all herself!
Cunning in Cotton.
Miss B, above, center, and cen-
ter of attraction at the Surf
• club, has everything under per-
fect control as she strolls along
the boardwalk. With not a care in
her pretty head, and lots of
streamlining in her natty little
sports dress, she walks with con-
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size
14 requires 4% yards of 39 inch
material for the dress and shirts,
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dress alone requires 3% yards.
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Miss Y, the sports enthusiast
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and practical she wears it almost
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